NZ building work put in place, December quarter 2017

Construction activity picked up in the December quarter, rising by 1.4%. That...

07 Mar 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Another week and another twitter tirade from US President Donald Trump...

07 Mar 2018 Agri

Businesses and households split

The start of 2018 has seen divergent conditions across the New Zealand...

05 Mar 2018 Weekly Commentary

Rewriting history

Our latest quarterly Economic Overview comes against a somewhat different...

26 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

Q4 2017 Retail spending review

Retail sales rose strongly in the final quarter of 2017. We expect spending growth...

23 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Fortnightly Agri Update

Prices for New Zealand’s key agricultural commodity exports remain reasonably...

21 Feb 2018 Agri

Economic Overview: Rewriting history

There is a saying that it is tougher to forecast the economy than the weather...

20 Feb 2018 Economic Overview

A difference of opinion

Financial markets are always eager to pick turning points in the economic cycle...

19 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

A short note on our GDP and OCR forecasts compared to the Reserve Bank's

Following a news article today, we thought we should clarify our thoughts on our GDP...

12 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

Stay on target

As widely expected, the Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged and repeated its...

12 Feb 2018 Weekly Commentary

Review of the Feb 2018 Monetary Policy Statement

As expected, the RBNZ left the OCR unchanged and repeated its neutral...

08 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ

NZ labour market review, Q4 2017 – All work, no pay

New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest since 2008. But wage growth...

07 Feb 2018 Economic data and RBNZ